
Discovering new pesticides with AI
We’re fundamentally building a system that replaces a lab technician + physics with a single neural network. This role exists to help build the backbone of that: building foundational biochemistry models and the continuous data feedback loop between model predictions and physical experiments. This role doesn’t require biology knowledge, just solid fundamentals in machine learning.
We use AI to discover new pesticides, because the ones we have now are failing — pests keep evolving, and the chemicals kill too many other things (like humans). Our models replace slow, expensive lab work, letting us discover new molecules 100× faster. Our first pesticide targets a Spodoptera with a novel mode of action. We’re a small team of young engineers from Caltech & Wolfram Research, with experience in drug discovery ML models, rebuilding agrochemical R&D around AI.